I believe that's Terror at London Bridge.

Well played Katz.

I'm positive that's Millennium. I've read the book, but not seen the movie. (Both are by John Varley based on an earlier short story of his.)

Yes, you are totally right. Thanks so much, my mind can rest. :)

It's absolutely Millennium. And it's as horrible as you make it sound.

Really? The book was sort of neat except for the ending.

Let me try to explain.

Cheryl Ladd plays Louise Baltimore, a woman from the future whose team of flight attendant-impersonators travels through time to stowaway on airliners, bringing with them charred bodies to replace the passengers whom they abduct because these passengers soul-crushingly have no impact whatsover on their immediate future, but when they are forcibly transported to Baltimore's time they discover that the entire environment is ruined and they will be forced into sex camps to repopulate the future on behalf of well-meaning tyrants in suspended-animation tubes, but there's a problem in that each time they travel in time they cause a timequake which rips their future apart a little more, and then one of the fake flight attendants gets shot on one of the hostage-taking runs in the 1960s and has lost her stun gun, which is found by a boy who grows up to be a scientist who will use the stun gun to alter history, so Louise goes back in time again to stop him from using it, but along the way also has to stop Kris Kristofferson who plays Bill Smith, an airline-crash investigator who is about to figure out that the people on one of the crashed planes were dead before the plane crashed, and so she distracts him by having sex with him, except he's so emotionless that this doesn't work, and so she has to go back and distract him again, except by now she's in love with him, and he's found the scientist, who kills himself with the stun gun, which sends a force-infinity timequake to the future to destroy it, so Louise takes Bill into the future so that they can use the time portal to go even further into the ruined future, and did I mention that by now she's pregnant with Bill's child, and so the future is simultaneously destroyed and saved.

Still sound good?

Mike

Nope. Sounds AWESOME.

And after I wrote that, I wrote down, "Dan will reply with, 'No, it sounds AWESOME.'"

Edited at 2009-02-16 08:53 pm (UTC)

Oooh, only off by two letters.

That's actually not that different from the book, except for the sex slavery and, of course, the fact that the book didn't star Ladd and Kristofferson.

Well, shockingly Mike is exaggerating (Mike? Exaggerate? NEVER.) At least the way I remember it - they aren't tied down and forced to be sex slaves. It is presented in a much more acceptable "you're going off to build a new human race". Sure the people looked scared, but you would be too if you had just been transported through time. And they were going to die anyway.

My memory may be fuzzy, but I don't remember any of the people being told, "Hey, if you want to start having procreative sex, great. But if not, that's cool too. Whatever works. Really, we don't mind dying out as a species. By the way, here's your daily oxygen ration."

But as always, I could be wrong.

longest sentence ever-- I am going to find this movie now.

Not exactly the effect I was aiming for....

You had me at "Cheryl Ladd".

Wow. You couldn't make stuff like this up if you tried.

Sure I can.

You neglected to mention if Kris Kristofferson is on the soundtrack. For some of us, this matters, even though we know it shouldn't.

My entry in the category of Jokes No One But Me Will Get, Or, Even When They Look It Up And Do Get, Will Think Is Even The Slightest Bit Funny:

I'm pretty sure he sings "The Year 3000 Minus 25."

Mike

Interestingly, this movie isn't currently available on Netflix.